Concept

Altruism

Overview

principle or practice of concern for the welfare of others

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Found by search and not yet checked by a person; they may only mention the idea in passing.

Conversely, it is undeniable that disregard of others by each, carried to a great extent, is fatal to society, and carried to a still greater extent is fatal to the family, and eventually to the race. Egoism and altruism are therefore co-essential.
Herbert Spencer, The Data of Ethics
Names Altruism several times; states what Altruism is.
Read the chapter · Open in the reader
There is what has been well termed an "egotism of renunciation"; a desire to do for others which, at bottom, is simply an attempt to regulate their conduct. Much of altruism is an egoism of a larger radius, and its tendency is to "manufacture a gigantic self", as in the case where a father sacrifices everything for his children or a wife for her husband.
John Dewey, Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics
States what Altruism is; names Altruism several times.
Read the chapter · Open in the reader
Altruism, on the other hand, may denote the theory that we ought always to aim at other people’s happiness, on the ground that this is the best _means_ of securing our own as well as theirs. Accordingly an Egoist, in the sense in which I am now going to talk of Egoism, an Egoist, who holds that his own greatest happiness is the ultimate end, may at the same time be an Altruist: he may hold that he ought to…
G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica
Names Altruism several times; states what Altruism is.
Read the chapter · Open in the reader